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There has been a strong desire among the community to migrate to Discord for quite some time. As of today, our community will be using Discord and as a result, we will no longer be actively using our TeamSpeak Server. The TeamSpeak server will temporarily stay active to help inform all of our move to Discord. Within the next couple of months, it will be shut down completely. For a quick invite to our new Discord server, you can click here.
For a full detailed guide visit http://www.vVv-Gaming.com/Discord

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our recent survey regarding the start time of our tournaments. After reviewing responses from the survey sent out to tournament participants we have decided to make changes to the start time of our events to try to better accommodate everyone. Beginning on Monday, October 24th, all of our tournaments will start an hour earlier - at 8PM Eastern. This means that registration will close at 7:30 EST, and that check-in starts at 7:30 EST and closes at 7:45 EST.

Looks like Andrew "Slooshi" Pham, the AP Mid player for Absolute Legends, forgot to turn his stream off before his action got hot and heavy. Slooshi ended up streaming himself watching porn and doing the deed last night.
This is a really important reminder to everyone: be careful when streaming!
Will be interesting to see if Twitch bans his account. Also, will Absolute Legends take any action against Slooshi? Thoughts?

Hey everyone!
It has been just over two weeks since I became the League of Legends manager here at vVv Gaming. Since taking charge, a bit has been changed for the better… but I am hungry to see our division grow even further. With that being said, I’d like to make a few quick announcements:
Our Aspire program to help train players is coming along nicely, and we are hoping to have a November launch. Please help with any feedback by posting in this thread here. We will be hosting more tournaments in the coming months with great prizes on the line. The next tournament will be announced in just a few days. Stay tuned for more information. MLG and GameBattles is hosting a huge League of Legends ladder for a variety of game modes. While a few of us have been playing in the 1v1 ladder, we should get teams playing in ALL game types. Lets put a vVv Team at the top of each ladder! We want people to know what the best community for LoL is by just looking at GameBattles. Sign up and play! Talk to others in Mumble and form teams! Do it!
Additionally, I want to point out a few people that have added exceptional value over the last two weeks.
vVv Zotico and vVv ShowNoHope: Thank you both so much for your hard work on the Aspire program! I can’t wait to see this all come together. Stix: Always friendly and incredibly active on the forums. Additionally, took the initiative to start writing blogs for the site. Looking forward to hearing how your interview goes. Thanks for being a model applicant! Ron Mock: Your game knowledge really shines in Mumble. You always seem to share knowledge and help out. It’s much appreciated. On top of this, you won the 1v1 Gamebattles kickoff tournament! That was so awesome! Congrats again.
Last but definitely not the least... I can't do this alone! If you have any feedback on ways you feel we can improve, please message me and let me know! I'm easy to get in contact with. All of my contact information is below.
Skype: vVvParadise
Email: Paradise@vvv-gaming.com
Twitter: @vVvParadise
Thank you all for the support so far. Together we will continue to make this the best League of Legends community out there!
~Paradise

Click here for a link to the official Legends of the League thread on the LoL forums!
Community, I need your help to keep discussion flowing in this topic on the LoL forums. The League of Legends forums are so fast that a topic can fall off the front page instantly. Any posts to help keep the topic front and center would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

Post in this thread if you would like to participate in the August 7th edition of our Community Inhouse Games!
The Community Inhouse Games take place each week on Tuesday at 8pm Eastern / 7pm Central. Two community teams of five will form to battle it out on stream. Winning teams will stick together and try to defend their title. We will play two to three games a week.
Want in? Post here to sign up!

Post in this thread if you would like to participate in the August 6th edition of Breaking the Meta!
Breaking the Meta is a weekly show that will be a non traditional game format. One team will play with traditional meta, but the other will have a guideline to follow that breaks the metagame.
Want in? Post here to sign up!

vVv Gaming Takes Down Lancouver 2012
After a team split a week and a half before Lancouver, RoshanNow and Altecx put together a new team for Lancouver consisting of the top lane player HolyitsDon, the mid lane Auke, and new jungler Long Le. The vVv Gaming team had swept the competition without dropping a single game all tournament, and were subsequently placed against The Vancouver Dream Team in the finals. The Dream team, led by their old team mates Tsunamiie and Skilly, who had left the team a week and a half week prior to the event, had shared their success leading up to the finals and also not dropped a game all weekend.
The first game of the finals, the Vancouver Dream Team first picked Malphite who would ideally lead his team with a strong initiate. The rest of the Dream Team chose the champions Irelia, Nidalee, Corki and Janna to back up Malphite's strong capability for forcing engagements. The vVv team had gone into the finals knowing the meat hook jungle strategy that Tsunamiie was going to use, and allowed follow through with the pick. To everyone's surprise, vVv gaming chose a triple ability power team composition including a Karthus jungle. After an excessively long match, vVv Gaming came out with their first win of the best of 3 series.
In game two, the Vancouver Dream Team stuck with their brutus beefcake muscle team, but opted to produce a tankier composition chosing Graves, Taric, Cho ’Gath, and Morgana, whilst vVv Gaming switched from the triple ability power team to a higher damage/lower health, force picking Janna, Kayle, Karthus, Ashe, and Nocturne. After a very intense game, in which both teams had given up large leads, The Vancouver Dream Team came out on top of game two.
The final match of the series looked to be an all-out war for first place, with both teams throwing previous strategies out the window and picking new compositions. The Vancouver Dream Team switched from their usual composition to an area of effect team picking up Ezreal, Lee Sin, Leona, Amumu, and Kennen, with vVv Gaming changing their composition yet again choosing Janna, Corki, Ryze, Urgot, and Nautilus. No one could have expected that from gaining two kills early in the match, the vVv Gaming team would have completely dominated the game and destroyed the Dream Team’s Nexus before the 19 minute mark, yet here we are.
After a stunning final, the vVv Gaming team took first place at Lancouver with a commanding finish. Each member of the team won an ASUS VE258Q 25″ LED Monitor (MSRP $289) + ASUS Vulcan ANC Pro Gaming Headset (MSRP $139) + $20 RP + Triumphant Ryze skin, and acknowledging their recent success, the vVv team plans on finalizing their roster and preparing for MLG Raleigh in late August.

So, someone recently asked me what would be a good way to prepare for GW2 structured PvP, and in so many words this is what I told them:
LoL has a completely different feel due to not utilizing WASD to move, Bloodline Champions is similar but i can't really measure how much faster my reaction time gets per session, and transitively how that translates to GW2. WoW arena is very similar in feel, but the problem is its an Arena, whereas GW2 is a completely different playstyle. I feel like diving into WoW arena again would translate to me feeling like I would have to treat GW2 like arena, when in all reality I'm running from people for half of the game. Whatever game you choose to play should ultimately result in a complete lack of bad habit forming activities, and work towards a universal purpose, like reaction time.
If i were forced to pick one, I would pick blc because it doesnt form bad habits, and I'm developing a universal skill. If i had to give an answer that I felt was correct, I would say a balance of all 3 games is required. The passive-aggressive laning attitude you have to carry when you play league, the reaction time and execution of BLC, and the real MMO pvp style of WoW.
For this reason I'll be mixing all 3 of the previously mentioned in order to prepare for Guild Wars 2 PvP. Please give me your thoughts and what you will be doing to prepare for release, and I hope to hear from all of you.